Voicing symptoms that have previously got me in A&E

When my son was born, (c section), I was sent home and started walking around. When he was 48 hours old I rang the ward asking for advice on chest pain/tight breathing. They simply said ring 999. I burst into tears because I hadn't thought it was serious enough for that. But I was rushed to A&E, them thinking I had a PE (lung clot). I didn't. Nevertheless I was kept in hospital as I started to get extreme wound pains. I was put on morphine. The chest pains carried on for a few weeks unexplained apart from possibly being my chest expanding due to having more room to breathe.

NOW, 2 years later, I'm 37 weeks pregnant tomorrow, and I have the same symptoms. Both the breathing and the wound pains (although not as bad wound pains ie. I'm not screaming in pain like last time, just on verge of tears). It's been going on for 4 hours now.

I don't want to make a fuss, I don't think I need A&E. But I don't want to be in this pain for the rest of the pregnancy.

Has anyone experienced this? What could a doctor actually do to "cure" me anyway?

I think I'll go to out of hours... hopefully they have an ECG there. I'll just wait for DP to do bedtime for toddler, poor toddler isn't feeling well - nor is DP for that matter. I really just don't want to go to A&E, it's 50 minutes away.

Baby is moving around, but braxton hicks have started.

Symptoms calm down if I stay on the sofa and don't move! It's the stairs that are the worst...

I don't actually think it's wound pain, it's higher up, I'm not sure if its simply ligerment (sorry I know thay isnt spelt right...!) Pain. But it feels like the pain I had after the c section, just milder.

I'm sitting on the sofa still and it simply feels like braxton hicks. So i'm going to give it a while - some chocolate and some netflix, and then if I can't fall asleep then maybe it's not braxton hicks.. I never went into labour with my son (he was transverse) so i have no clue..

I would say ring your triage just to be safe. I know it's a pain but they are there to check mumma and baby are well. MW at my hospital have always been really lovely so I'm sure yours would rather it be nothing than for you to wait to see if it gets worse

Always a bit unsure why anyone describes quite serious symptoms on mumsnet, everyone tells OP they should get checked out as symptoms quite serious but OP blythly insists they're fine. Why bother posting if it's all fine? It doesn't sound fine and you are full term pregnant for heavens sake. Get checked out.